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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090138839 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR DESIGNING CIRCUITS A circuit designing method for a semiconductor integrated circuit, the circuit having a clock control circuit and leaves to which clock signals are propagated through the clock control circuit, has detecting a clock signal producing point where a clock signal is to be p... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138670 | SOFTWARE-CONFIGURABLE AND STALL-TIME FAIR MEMORY ACCESS SCHEDULING MECHANISM FOR SHARED MEMORY SYSTEMS Systems and methodologies for stall-time fair memory access scheduling for shared memory systems are provided herein. A stall-time fairness policy can be applied in accordance with various aspects described herein to schedule memory requests from threads sharing a memor... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138628 | MULTI-BUS ARCHITECTURE FOR MASS STORAGE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP CONTROLLERS Systems and methods that can facilitate an expedient and efficient transfer of data between memory components (e.g., flash memory) and host components (e.g., multimedia cards, secure digital cards, etc.) are presented. A memory controller component can be employed to fa... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138498 | RDF STORE DATABASE DESIGN FOR FASTER TRIPLET ACCESS RDF store database designs and efficient techniques for converting SPARQL queries to SQL queries are described that provide faster triplet access, and which can reduce the computational overhead and cost associated with storing large volumes of RDF metadata. In various ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138437 | CONVERTING SPARQL QUERIES TO SQL QUERIES RDF store database designs and efficient techniques for converting SPARQL queries to SQL queries are described that provide faster triplet access, and which can reduce the computational overhead and cost associated with storing large volumes of RDF metadata. In various ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138386 | INTERACTIVE STATEMENT Systems and methodologies for generating and utilizing an interactive financial statement are provided herein. An interactive statement can initially be generated for a user based on properties relating to a device on which the user will access the statement, such as di... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138349 | ARTIST SPONSORSHIP The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate sponsorship of authors as well as the material or original work produced by those authors. The architecture can issue a virtual share by which participants can personally invest in an author or hi... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138090 | ARTICULATING INTERVERTEBRAL DISC PROSTHESIS An artificial intervertebral disc for implantation between two adjacent vertebrae includes superior and inferior shells connected in a ball and socket arrangement. The inferior shell preferably incorporating a convex portion that cooperates with a concave portion on the... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090137924 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESHING HUMAN AND COMPUTER COMPETENCIES FOR OBJECT CATEGORIZATION The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for visual object categorization. The method and system include receiving human inputs including data corresponding to passive human-brain responses to visualization of images. Computer inputs are also received which... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136864 | DEVELOPING AGENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME It is intended to provide a method includes the step of forming agglomerated particles by agglomerating fine particulate mixture containing a binder resin and a colorant. In the step of forming agglomerated particles, a cationic organic coagulating agent having an avera... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136206 | VIDEO RECORDER AND METHOD OF PROCESSING RECORDING SCHEDULE A video recorder includes a schedule reconfiguration section having: a local deterioration determining module that determines whether a local deterioration in a recording state occurs by performing simulating the recording state obtained when the reallocated resources a... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136137 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF The invention includes a reference oint setting unit configured to extract a plurality of reference points from an input image; a pattern extractor configured to extract a local pattern of the reference points; a characteristic set holder configured to hold a group of c... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135911 | FAST MOTION ESTIMATION IN SCALABLE VIDEO CODING Scalable Video Coding is recently attracting attentions due to its high flexibility. The current H.264/AVC scalable extension has adopted the Motion Compensated Temporal Filter (MCTF) framework to provide temporal scalability. In this paper, described is another fast mo... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135901 | COMPLEXITY ADAPTIVE VIDEO ENCODING USING MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES Encoding techniques are provided that consider decoder complexity when encoding video data. A complexity adaptive encoding algorithm encodes video data by encoding current frame data based on reference frame data taking into account an expected computational complexity ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135659 | ROOM TEMPERATURE DRIFT SUPPRESSION VIA SOFT PROGRAM AFTER ERASE Providing for suppression of room temperature electronic drift in a flash memory cell is provided herein. For example, a soft program pulse can be applied to the flash memory cell immediately after an erase pulse. The soft program pulse can help to mitigate dipole effec... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135541 | ACTUATOR AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BASED THEREON An actuator includes a substrate, a fixed electrode provided on a major surface of the substrate, a movable beam opposed to the major surface and held above the substrate with a gap thereto, and a dielectric film provided between the fixed electrode and the movable beam... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135534 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first and second power supply domain circuits having a first and second power supply terminals, respectively. An internal signal propagation line propagates a signal from a circuit of the first power supply domain circuit to... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135449 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a pattern formation unit which forms a first gradation screen pattern on an image carrier unit at a non-image formation operation, a gradation characteristic determination unit which determines a gradation characteristic from the firs... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090134945 | CLOCK GENERATOR A clock generator has a ring oscillator which has odd-numbered inverters connected in series, wherein an output of the inverter at a final stage is inputted into the inverter at a first stage to generate and output a clock signal, a frequency divider which receives the ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090134220 | ARTICLE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS An article data processing apparatus is provided with a first read instructing section which instructs a wireless system reading apparatus for reading identification information items stored in RFID tags attached to articles for sale to read the identification informati... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090132955 | DATA VALIDATION USING SIGNATURES AND SAMPLING Architecture that facilitates validation of a data mapping of data from a data source to a data target. There is included a signature generation component that generates a source signature of all or a portion of the data source and a target signature of all or a corresp... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132769 | STATISTICAL COUNTING FOR MEMORY HIERARCHY OPTIMIZATION Systems and methods that optimize memory allocation in hierarchical and/or distributed data storage. A memory management component facilitates a compact manner of identifying approximately how often the memory chunk is being used, to promote efficient operation of the s... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132461 | DATA VALIDATION USING SIGNATURES AND SAMPLING Architecture that facilitates validation of a data mapping of data from a data source to a data target. There is included a signature generation component that generates a source signature of all or a portion of the data source and a target signature of all or a corresp... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132366 | RECOGNIZING AND CREDITING OFFLINE REALIZATION OF ONLINE BEHAVIOR The subject disclosure relates to an improved electronic commerce and advertising platform that aggregates transaction data from merchants and consumers. A set of enhanced scenarios built on the platform span both the online and offline transactional and advertising uni... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132326 | INTEGRATING ADS WITH MEDIA The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can utilize special metadata to facilitate an improved advertising model in connection with media content delivery. The architecture can monitor a media player device and can launch a metadata interface on the m... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090130585 | DEVELOPING AGENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A coarse particle containing a polyester based resin and a coloring agent is added in an aqueous medium containing a surfactant, a basic substance and an inorganic water-soluble electrolyte, and dispersion and coagulation are carried out to form a toner particle.... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090130579 | DEVELOPING AGENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A method for manufacturing a developing agent includes forming a toner particle by adding an aggregating agent to a dispersion containing fine particles containing a binder resin and a colorant to allow aggregation and melt adhesion to occur, wherein the pH of the dispe... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090129795 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Plural image forming sections transfer toner images of plural colors to a transfer target medium, so that a color image is formed on the transfer target medium. When a weight per particle of respective monochromatic toner particles calculated from a 50% volume average p... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090129496 | FULL-RATE DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME CODES FOR COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS A full-rate distributed space-time (ST) code design is provided for amplify-and-forward cooperative wireless channels. A signal space diversity technique is employed at the source node and a unique signature vector at each relay node. The distributed space-time (ST) cod... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128998 | SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a capacitor element having an anode member and a cathode member, an anode terminal electrically connected with the anode member, a cathode terminal electrically connected with the cathode member, and a mold resin portion coverin... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128848 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, AND REMOTE DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus sets setting information for forming an image, detects, using a media sensor, characteristic information of a recording medium on which an image is formed according to setting by the setting information, forms an image on the recording medium,... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128483 | ADVANCED NAVIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR PORTABLE DEVICES The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be perfor... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090127768 | SHEET SEPARATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING STACKED SHEETS A sheet separating device includes: an air blowing unit that is configured to blow air toward a side face of stacked sheets being stacked with a plurality of sheets to separate the sheets by forming an air layer between the sheets; and a sheet pressing unit that is conf... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090127507 | LUMINESCENT MATERIAL A luminescent material is provided, which includes a material formed of a single composition containing the main crystal phase and an activator which causes light emission. The material exhibits a narrowband light emission spectrum in a wavelength ranging from 540 nm to... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090125918 | SHARED SENSING SYSTEM INTERFACES Various interfaces such as application programming interfaces (APIs) are employed to allow developers to construct applications that use multiple shared sensors. In one instance, a coordinator can be utilized to facilitate coordination of sensor data contributors and ap... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090125886 | INTERNAL TEST AND MANIPULATION OF AN APPLICATION System(s) and method(s) facilitate testing and manipulating an application internally within a client-server configuration coordinated by a communicator object. A client test-object conveys a test to a server test-object through a remoting channel and over disparate pro... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090125623 | DATA VALIDATION USING SIGNATURES AND SAMPLING Architecture that facilitates validation of a data mapping of data from a data source to a data target. There is included a signature generation component that generates a source signature of all or a portion of the data source and a target signature of all or a corresp... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090125553 | ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESSING AND FUNCTION SHIPPING IN SSIS Systems and methods that integrate data and business logic/functions associated with a data flow. An encapsulation component packages data flow and business logic together as part of a message based asynchronous execution. Such encapsulation component spans a single log... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090125512 | SCHEMA MAPPER Embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to effectively visualize the mapping between two schemas, referred to herein as a source schema (or first schema) and a destination schema (or second schema), regardless of the size or complexity of the schemas an... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090124760 | POLYOLEFIN HYBRID POLYMER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME It is an object to provide a new polyolefin hybrid polymer composed of a polyolefin segment and a polar polymer segment (Z) and a method for manufacturing the hybrid polymer by an industrially advantageous procedure. A polyolefin hybrid pol... | 05/14/2009 |
